Slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan’s killer is arrested but not the person who paid him

[Myles]

I hope the guy that was arrested talks and gives the ex wife's name as who paid him to do it.  I'm pretty certain it was her.  

I didn't see a thread on this anywhere.  If the mods feel it should be in the North America section, feel free to move it.   

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Slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan’s widow, Kirsten, spoke to Fox News Digital Wednesday hours after a Florida man was arrested for his murder — and weighed in on the suspect's connection to her husband’s ex-wife.

Fox News Digital informed Kirsten that the accused killer was renting his Jacksonville home from Shana Gardner-Fernandez’s second husband, Mario Fernandez, at the time of the slaying.

"I’m not surprised to be honest," Kirsten said after a long pause. She and Jared share daughters Bexley, 3, and London, 1.

Jared, 33, was gunned down Feb. 16 in front of Bexley after dropping off the twins he shares with Gardner-Fernandez at her home in Jacksonville Beach. He was lured from the car by a tire placed in middle of the one-way road.

The Jacksonville Beach Police Department and the state attorney’s office, led by Melissa Nelson, announced the arrest Wednesday of Henry Tenon, 61, on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder, accessory after the fact to a capital felony and child abuse.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-widow-slain-microsoft-exec-calls-out-his-ex-wife-after-suspects-arrest

https://abcnews.go.com/US/arrest-made-year-after-florida-father-4-gunned/story?id=96667278

Edited January 26, 2023 by Still Waters
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[Myles]

It has to be just a matter of time before the ex wife is arrested.

 

The man charged with murdering Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan in front of his 2-year-old daughter was a regular contractor for his ex-wife’s new hubby, according to the accused killer’s roommate.

Henry Tenon — accused by cops of gunning down the 33-year-old father-of-four — routinely performed work at several rental properties owned by Mario Fernandez, the former roommate told The Post.

Fernandez is now married to Shanna Gardner-Fernandez who had been locked in a bitter divorce and custody dispute with Bridegan since 2016.

Tenon’s former roommate also described Tenon, 61 — a convicted felon — as a quiet and hardworking man who often helped out his ailing father who lived next door before he recently passed away.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/27/jared-bridegans-accused-killer-employed-by-exs-new-husband/

[Myles]

 

 

In a recently filed document, prosecutors suggest the man charged in a Microsoft executive’s ambush murder plotted the act with other people for more than a month. Not only that, but defendant Henry Arthur Tenon, 61, allegedly helped people flee responsibility for the mysterious killing into the following summer.

Authorities did not release an affidavit when arresting Tenon last month, saying a judge sealed it. But they maintain Tenon was not the only person involved in murdering Jared Bridegan, 33.

“We know Henry Tenon did not act alone,” State Attorney Melissa Nelson of Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit said in a press conference Jan. 26.

 

The 61-year-old is charged with murder in the second degree with a weapon, conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree, accessory after the fact to a capital felony, and child abuse. Nelson said her office is seeking an indictment for murder in the first degree.

In discussing the conspiracy charge on Wednesday, prosecutors wrote that Tenon “on or between January 4, 2022 and February 16, 2022, in the County of Duval and the State of Florida, did agree, conspire, combine or confederate with other human beings to, unlawfully and from a premeditated design, effect the death of Jared Bridegan.”

It was on Feb. 16, 2022 that Bridegan went out to dinner with his twin children and their two-year-old half-sister, police said. He dropped the older kids off at his ex-wife Shanna Gardner-Fernandez ‘s home. The murder soon occurred on a dark stretch of Sanctuary Boulevard in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Police believe Bridegan came across a tire blocking the road. He stopped and opened the door to his SUV, presumably to move the object, Jacksonville Police Chief Gene Paul Smith said at the press conference.

 

It was then that he was gunned down in cold blood,” the chief said.

 

Tenon is charged with child abuse because even if Bridegan’s daughter was unharmed in her car seat, the shooting exposed her to danger, authorities said.

Police claim this was a planned and targeted ambush. Nothing was stolen.

Between Feb. 16 and Aug. 19, Tenon “did maintain, assist or give aid to other human beings, knowing that other human beings had committed a capital felony, to-wit: Murder in the First Degree,” prosecutors wrote regarding the accessory charge. They claim he helped these people avoid responsibility for Bridegan’s death.

Investigators have yet to name any more suspects.

 

Jared Bridegan’s death was a mystery from the beginning.

Smith noted that Jared’s widow Kristen Bridegan and his brother Adam Bridegan were there for the press conference.

“This was such a heinous crime,” Adam told WJXT in an Aug. 16 report. “I mean, the amount of times he was shot, just to ensure that he was dead, that he wasn’t going to be able to recover, and all of us in our family are just devastated.”

“Sometimes I feel like we are just a spectacle,” Kirsten said. “People don’t realize that this is our reality every single day. We wake up every day and Jared is still not here. His car is not pulling in the driveway. This is real. Myself, four children and an enormous amount of friends and family are all suffering every single day because of this. This is real.”